What was that? What?

Something strange has been happening lately.

The other day at work I walked by some people having a normal conversation, and I heard some of what they were saying. As I passed them I heard one of them use a word, a word I know, a word that I've heard before, but it wasn't a common word, not something that I'd hear every day. I can't remember now what it was, but I think the word might have been 'uncontrollability' or something similar.

It wouldn't even have registered in my head if I had not, only a few minutes later as I walked over to the other side of the floor, caught someone else using that very same uncommon word. In a totally unrelated conversation, with totally different people.

It was a bit weird but I didn't thing too much about it. Just a coincidence, right?

But then it happened again. It has now happened to me several times this week, with separate words (that strangely I cannot remember....any of them) I'd hear someone say a single, not-so-common word, then mere moments later, I'd hear it again, somebody else using that very same word in another context entirely.

The second time I felt just a little bit freaked. After the third time it happened it was downright creepy. I found myself listening everywhere for more examples of it, trying to see if there was a pattern, or if the same word showed up more than once.

I started thinking that it's like a Matrix sort of thing, where 'reality' has a tiny glitch in it, like there is some small loop that is being rerun somehow. And I'm the only one catching it.

Has this happened before to any of you? Is there a name for this phenomenon? Some form of déjà vu? If I were a more paranoid person, I might think that something is going on.

Let the ridicule commence.